Baby's First Photo

Here is the first ever picture of LP.
He's about the size of a grain of rice and has a strong heartbeat.

...Welcome to Our Blog...

Kevin and I were very excited to find out in March that we were pregnant! We decided to create a blog to share with our family how our planning and pregnancy were going. Right now our tentative due date is December 3, which puts me at about eight weeks pregnant. I hope to use this blog as my pregnancy journal to reflect on all the emotions and changes that come along with a pregnancy.

Parasites and lameness and Babies..Oh My !

That last post brings disturbing images of Alien to mind...

Regarding the lameness and psychoticness of my description of you... I was going for cute and sweet. Does that mean that what I find cute and sweet is in actuality lame and psychotic?

(Maybe...if so it's good we found each other...)

Interesting questions that I am sure we will all enjoy answering through experimentation with our unborn child's psyche. :-)

Babies on the brain

It's true I think about LP (litle peanut) quite often. But it's hard to avoid seeing as how I constantly want to vomit. It's easy to remember that I'm either sick or host to the Worst. Parasite. Ever. Thanks LP, you're doing a good job staying on my mind.

Mildly interesting things...

The oddest part about becoming a father to be is that I really don't feel any different. I can conceptualize how huge of a change it is going to be to become a father. I enjoy thinking about what it is going to be like to have a child and have someone who is completely dependent on us for their physical needs, their education, world view, direction in life, and their fundamental health. However, it still seems just as abstract as it did a year ago even though it obviously is not...

I know that the baby is on Austin's mind constantly, even amidst the wild and needy children of her kindergarten class and the everyday directions that she is pulled. Strangely, for me... it is not. I find that I can still get wrapped up in work, meetings, or phone calls. I can even be happily describing it to people in the course of conversation while going hours before the thought "I'm going to be a father" creeps back into my mind. It is still surprising to me every time that it does.

It is funny how even when it is below the surface of my mind it changes my behavior, though. I find that I am suddenly interested in completing all of the projects such as repairing our deteriorating yard, replacing our kitchen linoleum, our leaky windows, and our leaky fireplace flew that have been present for the last 4 years. Cooking balanced meals and the ingredients in them now holds my interest where I had very little in it before.

It seems that my body is programmed to respond to the most exciting events in my life in the boy scout "Be Prepared" mode of operation.

In any case it is an odd combination of being deliriously happy and excited and yet feeling somewhat numb. If the books are to be believed, this will soon be replaced with a feeling of the "realness" of the child.

I'll keep you posted.

-K

Inaugural Post - Baby Blog: The Father's perspective

I am excited about this opportunity to write about the beginnings of parenthood from the father's perspective. I should first qualify by mentioning that I do not possess my wife's or her sister's technical saavy with blogging nor their artistic capabilities and most likely all of the pictures, backgrounds, and cool links that you see on the page will be their doing.

I also don't think that I possess anywhere near the range of emotions that they have to write about. At any given time, when asked how I am feeling, I will answer with one of six things... really happy, loving, excited, sad, angry, or (the far more common) pretty good. (1) My wife on the other hand has a rich boquet of emotions to describe which I often have difficulty processing. Such as... disappointed, frustrated or hurt (they all mean angry near as I can tell)... wanting to unzip you and zip myself inside or gobble you with a spoon (2)(a combination of happy,excited and loving), depressed, lonely, exhausted, or melancholy (all various gradations on sad) (3)
Finally, I am likely to be less prolific... I simply don't possess the cleverness to be an everyday poster. That being said... I do have some mildly interesting things to write about today...

Footnotes by Austin:
(1.) Sometimes you're hungry. There, that's seven
(2.) You've totally made me sound psychotic, which I'm not.
(3.) I am also often happy, why do I sound so lame in my husband's description of me?